Arts | Cuban Famous

Zaida del Río

She was born in Guadalupe, Las Villas, Cuba

Faustino Oramas Osorio

El Guayabero, «el juglar mayor de Cuba», «el rey del doble sentido»

===BODY=== Popular troubadour, he is recognized as «the greatest minstrel of Cuba» and achieved fame as «the king of double meaning» for his ability and grace in weaving complex sung narratives in ...

Lisandro Otero

===BODY=== Novelist, diplomat, and journalist

Emilio Bacardí Moreau

Born in Santiago de Cuba, he was the son of Facundo Bacardí y Massó, a merchant of Catalan origin who would create the important spirits company Ron Bacardí —of which Emilio and his brothers were ...

Pilar Pubillones

Pilar Arcos, La reina del cuplé

Her name was Pilar Pubillones, daughter of one of the owners of the Havana circus Pubillones

Alfredo Valdés-Brito Gamba

Alfredo Brito

===BODY=== Alfredo Brito is a Cuban musician and singer, member of a family of artists with recognized prestige in the musical field

Alfredo Valdés-Brito Ibáñez

Outstanding Cuban musician from the first half of the twentieth century, first integrating various orchestras, later as composer and arranger

Lorenzo García Vega

Cult author and creator of one of the most unclassifiable works in Cuban literature, his influence reaches the youngest writers of the Island

Alberto Damián Luberta Noy

Luberta, «el mártir cotidiano de la radio», Fabio Henríquez

===BODY=== Director and writer of radio programs

Charles Alden Knight James

Alden Knight

===BODY=== Theater, television, radio, film and cabaret actor

Alejandro Cordo Lugo

Alejandro Lugo

===BODY=== Actor in Cuban radio, television, film, and theater

Guillermo Álvarez Guedes

Álvarez Guedes, “innovador de la comedia moderna”

===BODY=== Comedian, actor, writer, singer, producer and music entrepreneur

Antonio Emilio Vázquez Gallo

Vázquez Gallo

===BODY=== Actor, playwright, narrator and one of the most prolific radio and television directors in Cuba

María Villar Buceta

Born in Pedro Betancourt, Matanzas, María Villar Buceta managed at age 16 to astonish critics when, from her native corner, formerly called Corral Falso, she published her first poems and journalistic ...

Alberto Villalón Morales

===BODY=== Alberto Villalón, guitarist and interpreter of the trovadoresco genre, was equally a distinguished composer

Roberto Ondina

He received initial music studies from his father, and later studied flute with several teachers, although his learning was mostly self-taught

Jorge Garciaporrúa Álvarez

Garciaporrúa is a musician, advisor, director, dramaturg, pedagogue, and composer

Roberto Fernández Retamar

David

Important Cuban poet, essayist and cultural promoter

Ramón Rubiera Pastrana

Born in Los Palos, municipality of Nueva Paz, province of La Habana, a poet and journalist, narrator, art critic and publicist who served as Editor-in-Chief of the local magazines "Alborada" and "Bohemia". He ...

Ricardo Díaz Fresneda

Born in Ciudad de La Habana, he grew up between El Cerro, San José de las Lajas and the Pogolotti neighborhood

Rafael Alcides Pérez

===BODY=== He was born in Bayamo, Granma

José Antonio Alonso Aday

He began in radio by chance because one day he went to CMW La Voz de las Antillas to visit his friend Chenín Guzmán

Adolfo Martí Fuentes

He was a professor at the University of La Habana and National Director of Literature of the former National Council of Culture

Hubertus Christian de Blanck Valet

Hubert de Blanck

===BODY=== The pianist, composer, and pedagogue Hubert de Blanck (Hubertus Christian de Blanck Valet), who developed a considerable part of his professional work in Cuba, where he would achieve our nationality, ...

Eliseo Grenet Sánchez

===BODY=== Born in La Habana

Rafael García Grasa

Papito

Advisor to musical and dance groups such as Maraguán and Camagua, he transmitted his knowledge about the popular and traditional culture of the Caribbean, especially its African and Haitian roots

Juan Francisco Sariol

He was born in San Luis and when he was seven years old his family moved to Santiago de Cuba, where he studied at a public school and at the private school San Severino, in exchange for different services ...

Enma Badía

===BODY=== She studied piano; initially, with Juan Molinari, as well as Harmony with Rosich in Spain, where she was a member of the Orfeo Catalá de Barcelona

Julio Gonzalo Elías Roig Lobo

Gonzalo Roig

His work in orchestral direction, musical promotion, and composition was enormous, as if they were great schools of Cuban music

Mercedes Valdés Granit

Merceditas Valdés, Mi Pequeña Aché

She was born on the Day of Our Lady of Mercedes in the Havana neighborhood of Cayo Hueso on Neptuno and Hospital streets, where she assimilated, from childhood, Yoruba chants and prayers, rumba and works ...

Raúl Morales García

Raúl Morales del Cascorro

Cuban writer with an extensive body of work (Trees Without Roots, A Dove for Graciela, The Best Fruit)

Antonio Dorta Hernández

Villo

===BODY=== A trained musician, he is one of the essential pillars in Taguasco's cultural identity, a member of the Banda de Concierto de Sancti Spíritus for 24 years, a fervent developer of new talent, ...